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ignominious

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ig·no·min·i·ous  (gn-mn-s)
adj.
1. Marked by shame or disgrace: "It was an ignominious end ... as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt" Angus Deming.
2. Deserving disgrace or shame; despicable.
3. Degrading; debasing: "The young people huddled with their sodden gritty towels and ignominious goosebumps inside the gray-shingled bathhouse" John Updike.
igno·mini·ous·ly adv.
igno·mini·ous·ness n.
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Adj.1.ignominious - (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
inglorious, shameful, opprobrious, disgraceful, black
dishonorable, dishonourable - lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"
ignominious
adjective humiliating, disgraceful, shameful, sorry, scandalous, abject, despicable, mortifying, undignified, disreputable, dishonourable, inglorious, discreditable, indecorous << OPPOSITE honourable
Translations

ignominious [ɪgnəˈmɪnɪəs] adj → ignominioso, vergonzoso
ignominious [ɪgnəˈmɪnɪəs] adj → honteux/euse, ignominieux/euse
ignominious [ɪgnəˈmɪnɪəs] adj → schmachvoll
ignominious [ɪgnəˈmɪnɪəs] adj → vergognoso/a, ignominioso/a


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For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
To be drowned in a pond, though it might be called an ignominious fate by the ignorant, is yet a bright and peaceful ending in comparison with some other endings to one's earthly career which I have mentally quaked at in the intervals or even in the midst of violent exertions.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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